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Profitable Sales Emails, Ads, and Letters

Profitable Sales Emails, Ads, and Letters

Profitable Sales Emails, Ads, and Letters

Everybody wants to make money. In fact, most people would like to hit upon something that makes them fabulously rich! And seemingly, one of the easiest roads to the fulfillment of these dreams of wealth is mail order or within the professional circles of the business, direct mail selling.

The only thing is, hardly anyone gives much real thought to the basic ingredient of selling by mail – the writing of profitable classified ads. If your mail order business is to succeed, then you must acquire the expertise of writing classified ads that sell your product or service!

So what makes a classified ad good or bad? First of all, it must appeal to the reader, and as such, it must say exactly what you want it to say. Secondly, it has to say what it says in the least possible number of words in order to keep your operating costs within your budget. And thirdly, it has to produce the desired results whether inquiries or sales.

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Newspaper Advertising

Although the information in this article was written a while ago now, there is still something that can be learned from it. I wrote this when I was running my workshops on how to set up your own business from home, back prior to the Internet. Even though the information might be old, the principles remain the same. Plus, you can still use this information in the larger newspapers that remain well circulated.

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